Shreveport's Blake LeVasseur had his airboat flip recently on Wallace Lake. LeVasseur was uninjured, along with his three passengers, in the boating accident.

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With National Safe Boating Week in full swing this week, Blake LeVasseur is thanking his lucky stars he didn't become one of Louisiana's boating casualties.

LeVasseur was heading back to the Wallace Lake launch a couple of weeks ago with his 5-year-old son, Landon, his mother and step-father aboard his 16-foot fiberglass airboat with a 383-stroke engine used primarily for bow fishing.

An airboat operates better in one-inch of water than it does in 10-feet of water, a point brought home harshly to LeVasseur on a sunny spring day. ...